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“‘They Will Thank Me in the Long Run’”: Court of Appeal Considers Good Faith Obligations and Fiduciary Duties of Directors in...

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The English Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Saxon Woods Investments Limited v. Francesco Costa ([2025] EWCA Civ 708) provides clarification on the application of directors’ fiduciary duties and the interpretation of good...more

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Disappointed Bidder in Bankruptcy Asset Sales Waived Argument that Buyers Did Not Act in Good Faith by First Raising It on Appeal

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The finality of asset sales in bankruptcy is an indispensable feature of U.S. bankruptcy law designed to maximize the value of a bankruptcy estate as expeditiously as possible for the benefit of all stakeholders. To promote...more

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UK Court of Appeal Provides Guidance on Interim Licenses in Latest FRAND Dispute

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The United Kingdom's Court of Appeal has issued an important decision on the principles governing the grant of interim licenses in standard essential patent ("SEP") disputes....more

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City’s Termination for Convenience Found in Breach of Contract

A recent Tenth Circuit ruling in an appeal successfully defended by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck affirmed a lower court judgment arising from a termination for convenience. This decision serves as support to contractors...more

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California Civil Procedure Code Section 998 – A Means to an End

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On April 4, 2019, Vadim Gorobets sued Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC based on allegations the defendant had violated the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (California’s “lemon law”). On October 15, 2020, defendant...more

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Florida Whistleblower Case Offers Wider Cultural Lessons for Employers

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If an employee files a whistleblower complaint against their employer, should that employee be required to show “actual” knowledge of a violation, or should a “good faith, reasonable belief” showing suffice? Not all courts...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

The “Business Judgment Rule” Applies in LLCs Too

Corporate directors have long relied on the “business judgment rule,” under which their decisions are presumed to have been made “on an informed basis, in good faith, and in the honest belief that the action taken was in the...more

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Ninth Circuit Panel Hears Oral Argument on the NLRB’s Transformative Cemex Decision

On October 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board, Case No. 23-2302 (9th Cir.) heard oral argument on the revised National...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

CVS Pharmacy Inc. v. Forest Laboratories Inc. (2d Cir. 2024)

In a decision characterized (somewhat remarkably) by the Circuit Court as being one of first impression, the Second Circuit affirmed dismissal with prejudice of an antitrust allegation by a class of plaintiffs* against Forest...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

Timely Good-Faith Efforts to Make Restitution in Attorney Discipline Cases

When fashioning a sanction in attorney discipline cases, the Supreme Court will consider both aggravating factors and mitigating factors. Bar Counsel must prove any aggravating factors by clear and convincing evidence, and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

All That Glitters: Use of Registered Mark To Describe Watch Color Was Fair Use

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgement to a luxury-watchmaker defendant, holding that its use of a registered and incontestable trademarked term was fair use...more

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Losing the faith? Implied term of good faith rejected in Jersey contract law

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There is no generally implied term of good faith in all Jersey law contracts, the Royal Court has held. In doing so, it has answered a question left open in earlier Jersey judgments – including by the Court of Appeal in the...more

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Florida Litigation Procedure Update: Third DCA Clarifies Key Aspects of § 57.105

In AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Rigney, 3D21-2261 (Fla. 3d DCA Sept. 6, 2023), Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal reviewed the denial of two motions for sanctions under section 57.105, Florida Statutes. In its ruling, the...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

“Business Judgment Rule” Applies to HOAs

California’s common law “business judgment rule,” as described by the courts, protects from court intervention “those management decisions which are made by directors in good faith in what the directors believe is the...more

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Mine Safety and Health Administration Act Enforcement: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Application of Methane Safety Regulations

Co-Author: Elizabeth Strickland The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (“Court”) addressed in a June 16th decision certain Mining Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) regulations. See Peabody Midwest...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Cour d’appel de l’Ontario : Une perte ne peut être présumée par suite d’un manquement à l’obligation d’exécution honnête

Dans l’affaire Bhatnagar v Cresco Labs Inc (l’« affaire Bhatnagar »), la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a statué qu’il ne peut être présumé que des dommages-intérêts seront attribués lorsqu’un défendeur a manqué à son...more

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No Loss, No Foul: Ontario Court of Appeal Clarifies That Loss Will Not Be Presumed From a Breach of the Duty of Honest Contractual...

In Bhatnagar v. Cresco Labs Inc. (Bhatnagar), the Court of Appeal for Ontario (Court) held that damages are not presumed where a defendant breaches the duty of honest contractual performance. Rather, according to the Court,...more

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SCOTUS Removes a Partial Barrier to Challenging Unstayed Bankruptcy Sales to Good-Faith Purchasers

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In MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, 134 S.Ct. 927, 937 (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court recently resolved a debate that has long divided Circuit Courts throughout the U.S: whether section 363(m) of the Bankruptcy...more

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The last word on good faith?

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Last autumn, the Court of Appeal held that actions taken by majority shareholders of a company, asking directors to resign, were not unfairly prejudicial to the minority shareholders. In doing so, the court made some...more

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Use It or Lose It: U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Holds in MOAC Mall Holdings LLC That 363(m) Protections Can Be Waived

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued its latest bankruptcy opinion in MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, holding that the Bankruptcy Code’s rule against invalidating 363 sales after appeal is not an iron-clad...more

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Lightning Round: LTL Management Files “Chapter 22” Case Immediately Following Bankruptcy Court’s Dismissal of its Prior Bankruptcy

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Just hours after the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey entered an order dismissing the Chapter 11 Case of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, LTL Management, as a bad faith filing, LTL filed for Chapter...more

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Good Faith Defense Precludes Final Pay and Wage Statement Penalties

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The California Court of Appeal recently issued an opinion that brings good news to employers in connection with California's draconian penalties for late payment of final wages....more

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Good Faith Defense Defeats Penalties on California Break Issues

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Last year, in Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc., 13 Cal.5th 93 (2022), the California Supreme Court held that an employer’s failure to timely pay premium pay for meal and rest break violations could subject the...more

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Texas "Two-Step" Forward, Three Steps Back for Mass Tort Debtors in the Third Circuit After LTL

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In a decision that may provide much-needed boundaries around the permissibility of debtors created from “out-of-the-box” prepetition corporate transactions, on January 30, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

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3rd Circuit Rejects Johnson & Johnson’s Effort To Set Up Subsidiary In Bankruptcy Court To Resolve Talc Asbestos Claims

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On January 30, 2023, the Third Circuit dismissed Johnson & Johnson (J&J)’s subsidiary LTL’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition because the facts did not support the financial distress required for the entity’s good faith filing...more

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